A Sample of Cooperative Conservation Case Studies

Southeastern

Project Name:: Muddy Creek Watershed Restoration Project - North Carolina
Location:: Southeastern: North Carolina
Summary:: In 1998, Duke Power and the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission formed a partnership with several organizations to address the sediment problem in the Muddy Creek North Carolina watershed.
Contact:: Steven R. Johnson
Sr. Environmental Resource Manager
Duke Energy Corporation
704-373-4391
srjohnso@duke-energy.com

Project Name:: Vulcan Materials Company Ruffner Mountain Nature Center
Location:: Southeastern: Alabama
Summary:: Wildlife team creates a nature center on mountain preserve providing students in Birmingham the opportunity to reach new educational heights.
Website:: www.wildlifehc.org
Contact:: Vanessa Kauffman
Director of Marketing & Communications
Wildlife Habitat Council
301-588-8994
vkauffman@wildlifehc.org

Midwest/Northern High Plains

Project Name:: Builders for the Bay
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Missouri, Northeastern/Mid-Atlantic: Washington, DC, Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia
Summary:: A program aimed at reducing environmental impacts from developments within the Chesapeake Bay watershed through local code and ordinance modification
Website:: www.buildersforthebay.net
Contact:: Rebecca Winer
Program Manager
Center for Watershed Protection
410-461-8323
rrw.cwp.org

Project Name:: Flathead Forestry Project
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Montana
Summary:: The project promotes community trust and collaborative processes, ensures forest and ecosystem health, and provides for a sustainable resource-based economy within the region.
Website:: www.redlodgeclearinghouse.org/stories/flatheadforest.html
Contact:: Carol Daly

Flathead Forestry Project
(406) 892-8155
cdaly1@centurytel.net

Project Name:: Ohio Greenways
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Ohio
Summary:: Ohio Greenways Project, National Park Svc., and others created a statewide greenways plan that helped lead the Clean Ohio Fund to invest over $200 million for greenways, farm preservation, and trails.
Website:: www.ohiogreenways.org/
Contact:: Paul Labovitz
RTCA Program Leader
National Park Service
(330) 657-2950
paul_labovitz@nps.gov

Project Name:: Red River Basin Restoration Effort
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Minnesota
Summary:: Partnership works with others to restore aquatic connectivity by removing or providing fish passage around select dams and other barriers to fish passage within the Red River basin.
Contact:: Marcia C. M. de Almeida
Fish Passage Interim Coordinator R9
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
703-358-1941
Marcia_Almeida@fws.gov

Project Name:: Swan Ecosystem Center
Location:: Midwest/Northern High Plains: Montana
Summary:: Swan Valley, Montana residents are working on a comprehensive strategy to maintain a timber economy, ecological integrity and a rural way of life as timberlands are sold for residential development.
Website:: swanecosystemcenter.com
Contact:: Anne Dahl
President/Secretary
Swan Ecosystem Center
406-754-3137
swanec@blackfoot.net

South-Central/South-West

Project Name:: Grand County / BLM Recreation Partnerships
Location:: South-Central/South-West: Utah
Summary:: Through county and agency agreements, the BLM Sand Flats Recreation Area and the Moab Information Center are managed by non-federal partners.
Website:: www.discovermoab.com/sandflats.htm and www.discovermoab.com/visitorcenter.htm
Contact:: Russ von Koch
Recreation Branch Chief
Moab BLM Field Office
435-259-2119
Russ_von_koch@blm.gov

Project Name:: Diablo Trust
Location:: South-Central/South-West: Arizona
Summary:: The purpose of the Diablo Trust is to maintain Diablo Trust ranches as long-term, economically viable enterprises managed in harmony with the natural environment and the broader community.
Website:: www.diablotrust.org
Contact:: Hadassah Holland
Administrative and Program Manager
Diablo Trust
(928) 523-0588
info@diablotrust.org

Project Name:: Rigs-to-Reefs Policy
Location:: South-Central/South-West: Louisiana, Texas, Southeastern: Alabama, Mississippi
Summary:: Rigs-to-Reef Policy encourages offshore oil companies to donate decommissioned rigs for reef-building by reef-associated organisms.
Contact:: Thomas Readinger

Minerals Management Services
202-208-3530
thomas.readinger@mms.gov

Far West

Project Name:: Jordan Valley Cooperative Weed Management Area
Location:: Far West: Idaho, Oregon
Summary:: Twelve public and private partners are managing weeds across Oregon and Idaho by sharing equipment, funds, labor, and local information.
Contact:: Dennis Stanford
Private Landowner and Chairman
Jordan Valley Cooperative Weed Management Area
541-583-2278
Mike_Woods@or.blm.gov

Project Name:: Palos Verde Blue Butterfly Recovery Program
Location:: Far West: California
Summary:: The Defense Support Center is working with partners, on its lands, to enhance the only known population of Palos Verdes blue butterflies, and to restore it elsewhere.
Contact:: Mr. Dan Ryan
Stewardship Director
Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy
310-541-7613 x 203
dryan@pvplc.org

Project Name:: Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary
Location:: Far West: Hawaii
Summary:: Protection of humpback whales is enhanced through a State/Federal management partnership.
Contact:: Jeffrey Walters, Ph.D.
Sanctuary Co-manager
Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale NMS/Department of Land & Natural Resources
808-587-0106
Jeffrey.S.Walters@hawaii.gov

Project Name:: Salt Pond Restoration in San Francisco Bay
Location:: Far West: California
Summary:: Restoration of 25,000 wetland acres at salt ponds around San Francisco Bay, with additional benefits from flood management, public access, and recreation.
Website:: www.southbayrestoration.org/ and http://www.napa-sonoma-marsh.org/
Contact:: Nadine Hitchcock
San Francisco Bay Program Manager
State Coastal Conservancy
510-286-4176
nhitchcock@scc.ca.gov

Project Name:: Herger-Feinstein Quincy Library Group Pilot Project
Location:: Far West: California
Summary:: The Quincy Library Group created a model for forest governance by making the community and community goals a central part of forest management.
Website:: www.qlg.org/
Contact:: Bill Coates
Chair
Quincy Library Group
530-283-4260
qlg@qlg.org

Project Name:: Private landowners and conservation partners join to protect abandoned farmland
Location:: Far West: Nevada
Summary:: Conservation partners are working to find ways, both vegetative and non-vegetative, to permanently protect farmland soils from wind erosion after irrigation water is removed.
Website:: www.nv.nrcs.usda.gov
Contact:: Liz Warner
Public Affairs Specialist
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
(775) 857-8500 x 105
liz.warner@nv.usda.gov

National

Project Name:: Return of the Wild Turkey in North America
Location:: National
Summary:: The National Wild Turkey Federation worked with its partners to restore wild turkeys to all suitable habitat across North America.
Website:: www.nwtf.org/all_about_turkeys/history_of_hunting.html
Contact:: Rob Keck
Chief Executive Officer
National Wild Turkey Federation
803-637-3106
pgoad@nwtf.net

Project Name:: ATTRA: National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service
Location:: National
Summary:: The ATTRA project provides free information to farmers and educators about agricultural practices which steward and protect natural resources, through tollfree phone service, website, and workshops.
Website:: www.attra.ncat.org
Contact:: Teresa Maurer
Sustainable Agriculture Program Manager
NCAT (Nat'l Ctr for Appropriate Technology)
1-800-346-9140
teresam@ncat.org

Project Name:: Walk A Mile in My Boots is Implemented Nationwide
Location:: National
Summary:: Cattlemen and biologists spend several days together, experiencing first-hand each other’s day-to-day activities, with the goal of opening the lines of communication, and developing partnerships.
Website:: www.fws.gov/walkamile/
Contact:: Stacey Katseanes
Associate Director
National Cattlemen’s Beef Association
202-347-0228 x114
skatseanes@beef.org

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